The guy taking the videos reminds people who object that surveillance cameras are everywhere, as if that makes his videotaping without asking permission perfectly all right.

Would you allow someone to videotape you in public? What would you do to stop him or her? The people in the video who objected didn’t seem to make any difference to the cameraman. Should someone using a camera have to ask permission before filming a person going about their ordinary life in public–eating in restaurants, walking in malls, sitting in their cars?

What if the person is doing something–not illegal–but that they don’t want publicized? Possibilities include having an affair, getting medical treatment, going into a building of an employer’s competitor, gambling, drinking …